Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-13
NEWS.
The Pan Handle RObberieS the Topic
Of Conversation.
A SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT THE CHAMBER.
LAIN coIlIERY, ST. CLAIR.
James n. Ward, the Actor, Painfully
Wounded by a Supernumetary.
DAVID HOFFMAN, THE TRAIN waEcEER,
SENTENCED 70 BE HANGED.
Arrest of John Mailman and Wife,
Charged With Arson.
ESPECIAL TO II sENTINEL.l
TAE PAN HANDLE RAILROAD
ROBBERIES.
The EngrOssing Topic Among Rail.
road Men and Citizens.

i
road Men and Citizens.
PTTTsBURG, April 12.-The wholesale
arrests OF the employees of the Pan
Handle railroad, for robbing the
height trains, continues to be the en-
crossing topic among railroad men and
citizens. superintendent Taylor's Of
flee was besieged from early morning,
by men in search of employment.
Many were given employment. The
road is now fully equipped, and there
is no delay in the movement of freight.
No arrests have been reported since
last night. Speaking Of the probable
conviction of the men now in Jail,
Special Agent Rice said this morning,
that of 60 men, now arrested, there
were not more than one, or possibly
two, who stood any chance of being
shown not guilty. The capture OF j.
r. Dunlap, at Dennison, Ohio, partic-
ularly pleased the detectives, as stated
last night. He made a confession, in
which he said the stealing had been
going on for months. He said he
could give the names of all the men
implicated on the Pittsburg division,
but was afraid to do 50. His language
to the officers being: 81 would give
you their names, but great God, they
would kill me. There was no organi-
cation among the robbers" Dunlap
said, "and no regular place of work.
Each crew worked by itself" Not
w~ithstanding Dunlap's confession, the
officers of the road still believe that
the plunderers were thoroughly organ-
ganized, and were carrying on the
robberies under the systematic direc-
ton OF shrewd leaders. When a new
man entered the service of the road,
if he was thought to be the right kind
of a fellow, he was initiated into the
gang with a rigid oath binding him to
secrecy.
A bill was introduced in the State
Legislature last night, which is in
tended to cover such cases as the rail-
road car robberies brought to light in
this city. Yesterdays bill is in the
shape of an amendment to the Penal
Code. At present there is no specific
law for the breaking open of a car, I'M
less it be proven that the a was forced
with the intent to commit a felony.
Fatal Colliery Explosion.
louisville, Pa, April pa shock
ing accident occurred at the mine of
the Chamberlain colliery, st. Clair,
this afternoon. Miss Berlista Shout,
Of Sharon Springs, New York, a stu
dent of Vassar College, was visiting
Miss Minnie Ke-ter, of st. Clair, a
fellow student. The two young ladies',
in company with two young men,
named Harry Short and Edwin Thorn
son, one of the operators of the col
liery, entered the mine for the pur-
pose of giving Miss Shout an oppor.
tunity to inspect the operations of
mining coal. The mine had not been
worked for a week, and none but the
explorers were inside at the time. In
an adjacent slope, working, however,
were Albert Thomson, another of the
firm, and several others, who were
making an examination of the works.
They were startled by a heavy explo-
sion, and knowing that the party had
entered the other slope, they fastened
| there to investigate. About $50 yards
from the foot of the slope they came
upon Messrs. Short and Thomson and
the two ladies', lying upon the ground,
| some of them unconscious, and all
frightfully burned and mangled. They
| were taken out as speedily as possible |
| and medical assistance obtained. Miss
Kerter's face was burned beyond re-
cognition, her skull and thigh fractured
and ankle crushed. She died this
evening. Miss Shout had a leg frac-
tured, and was terribly bruised and
burned, but may survive. Shorts
head is a mass of cuts and Commissions, |
and he is badly burned. He remained
unconscious and his. recovery is doubt
full. Thomson was painfully but not
fatally bruised. The precise cause of
the explosion is unknown, but the sup
position is that the party carried a
naked lamp and encountered a body |
of fire damp, which ignited from the
lamp and exploded with tremendous
force.
Am Actor FAITHFULLY Wounded.
BosToN, April Thames M. Ward,
the Irish comedian, who began an en-
gagement at the Bijou Theater, in his
play of "Red Fox" was painfully
wounded during the third act by a
supernumerary named Cohee. In this
act, Ward as Rody, the hero, in at
tempting to escape from prison is shot.
Cohee, in discharging the gun aimed